Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 89
Dorse (n.) The back of a book. [Obs.]
Books, all richly bound, with gilt dorses. -- Wood.
Dorse (n.) (Zool.) The Baltic or variable cod ({Gadus callarias), by some believed to be the young of the common codfish.
Dorsel (n.) A pannier.
Dorsel (n.) Same as Dorsal, n.
Dorser (n.) See Dosser.
Dosser (n.) A pannier, or basket.
To hire a ripper's mare, and buy new dossers. -- Beau. & Fl.
Dosser (n.) A hanging tapestry; a dorsal.
Dosser (n.) Someone who sleeps in any convenient place [syn: dosser, street person].
Dorsibranchiata (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of chaetopod annelids in which the branchi[ae] are along the back, on each side, or on the parapodia. [See Illusts. under Annelida and Ch[ae]topoda.]
Dorsibranchiate (a.) (Zool.) Having branchi[ae] along the back; belonging to the Dorsibranchiata.
Dorsibranchiate (n.) One of the Dorsibranchiata.
Dorsiferous () (Biol.) Bearing, or producing, on the back; -- applied to ferns which produce seeds on the back of the leaf, and to certain Batrachia, the ova of which become attached to the skin of the back of the parent, where they develop; dorsiparous.
Dorsimeson (n.) (Anat.) See Meson.
Dorsiparous (a.) (Biol.) Same as Dorsiferous.
Dorsiventral (a.) (Biol.) Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral.
Dorsiventral (a.) (Anat.) See Dorsoventral.
Dorsoventral (a.) (Anat.) From the dorsal to the ventral side of an animal; as, the dorsoventral axis.
Dorsoventral (a.) Extending from the back to the belly.
Dorsum (n.) [L.] The ridge of a hill.
Dorsum (n.) (Anat.) The back or dorsal region of an animal; the upper side of an appendage or part; as, the dorsum of the tongue. Dortour
Dorsum (n.) The posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine; "his back was nicely tanned" [syn: back, dorsum].
Dorsum (n.) The back of the body of a vertebrate or any analogous surface (as the upper or outer surface of an organ or appendage or part); "the dorsum of the foot."
Dortour (n.) Alt. of Dorture.
Dorture (n.) A dormitory. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Dories (n. pl. ) of Dory.
Dory (n.) (Zool.) A European fish. See Doree, and John Doree.
Dory (n.) (Zool.) The American wall-eyed perch; -- called also dore. See Pike perch.
Dories (n. pl. ) of Dory.
Dory (n.) A small, strong, flat-bottomed rowboat, with sharp prow and flaring sides.
Dory (n.) A small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled [syn: dinghy, dory, rowboat].
Dory (n.) Pike-like freshwater perches [syn: walleye, walleyed pike, jack salmon, dory, Stizostedion vitreum].
Dory (n.) Marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters.
Compare: Potato
Potato (n.; pl. Potatoes.) (Bot.) (a) A plant ({Solanum tuberosum) of the Nightshade family, and its esculent farinaceous tuber, of which there are numerous varieties used for food. It is native of South America, but a form of the species is found native as far north as New Mexico.
Potato (n.; pl. Potatoes.) (Bot.) (b) The sweet potato (see below).
Potato beetle, Potato bug. (Zool.) (a) A beetle ({Doryphora decemlineata) which feeds, both in the larval and adult stages, upon the leaves of the potato, often doing great damage. Called also Colorado potato beetle, and Doryphora. See Colorado beetle.
Potato beetle, Potato bug. (Zool.) (b) The Lema trilineata, a smaller and more slender striped beetle which feeds upon the potato plant, bur does less injury than the preceding species.
Potato fly (Zool.), Any one of several species of blister beetles infesting the potato vine. The black species ({Lytta atrata), the striped ({Lytta vittata}), and the gray ({Lytta Fabricii syn. Lytta cinerea) are the most common. See Blister beetle, under Blister.
Potato rot, A disease of the tubers of the potato, supposed to be caused by a kind of mold ({Peronospora infestans), which is first seen upon the leaves and stems.
Potato weevil (Zool.), An American weevil ({Baridius trinotatus) whose larva lives in and kills the stalks of potato vines, often causing serious damage to the crop.
Potato whisky, A strong, fiery liquor, having a hot, smoky taste, and rich in amyl alcohol (fusel oil); it is made from potatoes or potato starch.
Potato worm (Zool.), The large green larva of a sphinx, or hawk moth ({Macrosila quinquemaculata); -- called also tomato worm. See Illust. under Tomato.
Seaside potato (Bot.), Ipom[oe]a Pes-Capr[ae], a kind of morning-glory with rounded and emarginate or bilobed leaves. [West Indies]
Sweet potato (Bot.), A climbing plant ({Ipom[oe]a Balatas"> Sweet potato (Bot.), a climbing plant ({Ipom[oe]a Balatas) allied to the morning-glory. Its farinaceous tubers have a sweetish taste, and are used, when cooked, for food. It is probably a native of Brazil, but is cultivated extensively in the warmer parts of every continent, and even as far north as New Jersey. The name potato was applied to this plant before it was to the Solanum tuberosum, and this is the "potato" of the Southern United States.
Wild potato. (Bot.) (a) A vine ({Ipom[oe]a pandurata) having a pale purplish flower and an enormous root. It is common in sandy places in the United States.
Wild potato. (Bot.) (b) A similar tropical American plant ({Ipom[oe]a fastigiata) which it is thought may have been the original stock of the sweet potato.
Doryphora (n.) (Zool.) A genus of plant-eating beetles, including the potato beetle. See Potato beetle.
Doryphoros (n.) (Fine Arts) A spear bearer; a statue of a man holding a spear or in the attitude of a spear bearer. Several important sculptures of this subject existed in antiquity, copies of which remain to us.
Dosed (imp. & p. p.) of Dose.
Dosing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dose.
Dose (v. t.) To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.
Dose (v. t.) To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give potions to, constantly and without need.
A self-opinioned physician, worse than his distemper, who shall dose, and bleed, and kill him, "secundum artem." -- South
Dose (v. t.) To give anything nauseous to.
Dose (n.) The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.
Dose (n.) A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive.
Dose (n.) Anything unpleasant that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one; also used figuratively, as to give someone a dose of his own medicine, i. e. to retaliate in kind.
I am for curing the world by gentle alteratives, not by violent doses. -- W. Irving.
I dare undertake that as fulsome a dose as you give him, he shall readily take it down. -- South.
Dose (n.) A quantity of radiation which an object absorbs, or to which it is exposed.
Dose (n.) A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time [syn: dose, dosage].
Dose (n.) The quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time [syn: dose, dosage].
Dose (n.) A communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact [syn: venereal disease, VD, venereal infection, social disease, Cupid's itch, Cupid's disease, Venus's curse, dose, sexually transmitted disease, STD].
Dose (n.) Street name for lysergic acid diethylamide [syn: acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, superman, window pane, Zen].
Dose (v.) Treat with an agent; add (an agent) to; "The ray dosed the Paint."
Dose (v.) Administer a drug to; "They drugged the kidnapped tourist" [syn: drug, dose].
Dosel (n.) Same as Dorsal, n. [R.]
Dosology (n.) Posology. [R.] -- Ogilvie.
Dossel (n.) Same as Dorsal, n.
Dossel (n.) An ornamental hanging of rich fabric hung behind the altar of a church or at the sides of a chancel [syn: dossal, dossel].
Dosser (n.) A pannier, or basket.
To hire a ripper's mare, and buy new dossers. -- Beau. & Fl.
Dosser (n.) A hanging tapestry; a dorsal.
Dosser (n.) Someone who sleeps in any convenient place [syn: dosser, street person].
Dossil (n.) (Surg.) A small ovoid or cylindrical roil or pledget of lint, for keeping a sore, wound, etc., open; a tent.
Dossil (n.) (Printing.) A roll of cloth for wiping off the face of a copperplate, leaving the ink in the engraved lines.
Dost (2d pers. sing. pres.) of Do. Dostoevski
Dot (n.) (Law) A marriage portion; dowry. [Louisiana]
Dot (n.) A small point or spot, made with a pen or other pointed instrument; a speck, or small mark.
Dot (n.) Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen; as, a dot of a child.
Dotted (imp. & p. p.) of Dot.
Dotting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dot.
Dot (v. t.) To mark with dots or small spots; as, to dot a line.
Dot (v. t.) To mark or diversify with small detached objects; as, a landscape dotted with cottages.
Dot (v. i.) To make dots or specks. Dot
DoT, DOT (prop. n.) The United States Department of Transportation. [acronym]
Note: The Department of Transportation promulgates standards for the strength of shipping containers, and this abgreviation is often seen on cardboard boxes.
Dot (n.) A very small circular shape; "a row of points"; "draw lines between the dots" [syn: point, dot].
Dot (n.) The United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966 [syn: Department of Transportation, Transportation, DoT].
Dot (n.) The shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code [syn: dot, dit].
Dot (n.) Street name for lysergic acid diethylamide [syn: acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, superman, window pane, Zen].
Dot (v.) Scatter or intersperse like dots or studs; "Hills constellated with lights" [syn: dot, stud, constellate].
Dot (v.) Distribute loosely; "He scattered gun powder under the wagon" [syn: scatter, sprinkle, dot, dust, disperse].
Dot (v.) Make a dot or dots.
Dot (v.) Mark with a dot; "dot your `i's."
DOT, () Dynamic Overclocking Technology (FSB, MCI), "D.O.T."
DOT, () Digital Only Token
DOT, () Dynamic Overclocking Tool (graphic, MSI), "D.O.T."
Dot, () Decimal point.
See also dot file, dot notation.
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DOT. () This French word is adopted in Louisiana. It signifies the fortune, portion, or dowry, which a woman brings to her husband by the marriage. 6 N. S. 460. See Dote; Dowry.
Dotage (n.) Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage.
Capable of distinguishing between the infancy and the dotage of Greek literature. -- Macaulay.
Dotage (n.) Foolish utterance; drivel.
The sapless dotages of old Paris and Salamanca. -- Milton.
Dotage (n.) Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection.
The dotage of the nation on presbytery. -- Bp. Burnet.
Dotage (n.) Mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations [syn: dotage, second childhood, senility].
Dotal (a.) Pertaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting dower, or comprised in it. -- Garth.
Dotant (n.) A dotard. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Compare: Seal
Seal (n.) (Zool.) Any aquatic carnivorous mammal of the families Phocidae and Otariidae.
Note: Seals inhabit seacoasts, and are found principally in the higher latitudes of both hemispheres. There are numerous species, bearing such popular names as sea lion, sea leopard, sea bear, or ursine seal, fur seal, and sea elephant. The bearded seal ({Erignathus barbatus), the hooded seal ({Cystophora cristata), and the ringed seal ({Phoca foetida}), are northern species. See also Eared seal, Harp seal, Monk seal, and Fur seal, under Eared, Harp, Monk, and Fur. Seals are much hunted for their skins and fur, and also for their oil, which in some species is very abundant.
Harbor seal (Zool.), The common seal ({Phoca vitulina"> Harbor seal (Zool.), the common seal ({Phoca vitulina). It inhabits both the North Atlantic and the North Pacific Ocean, and often ascends rivers; -- called also marbled seal, native seal, river seal, bay seal, land seal, sea calf, sea cat, sea dog, dotard, ranger, selchie, tangfish.
Dotard (v. i.) One whose mind is impaired by age; one in second childhood.
The sickly dotard wants a wife. -- Prior.
Dotard (n.) An oldster in his dotage; someone whose age has impaired his intellect
Dotardly (a.) Foolish; weak. -- Dr. H. More.
Dotary (n.) A dotard's weakness; dotage. [Obs.] -- Drayton.
Dotation (n.) The act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman.
Dotation (n.) Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation.
Dote (n.) A marriage portion. [Obs.] See 1st Dot, n. -- Wyatt.
Dote (n.) pl. Natural endowments. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
Doted (imp. & p. p.) of Dote.
Doting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dote.
Dote (v. i.) To act foolishly. [Obs.]
He wol make him doten anon right. -- Chaucer.
Dote (v. i.) To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel.
Time has made you dote, and vainly tell Of arms imagined in your lonely cell. -- Dryden.
He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died. -- South.
Dote (v. i.) To be excessively or foolishly fond; to love to excess; to be weakly affectionate; -- with on or upon; as, the mother dotes on her child.
Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote. -- Shak.
What dust we dote on, when 't is man we love. -- Pope.
Dote (n.) An imbecile; a dotard. -- Halliwell.
Dote (v.) Be foolish or senile due to old age.
Dote (v.) Shower with love; show excessive affection for; "Grandmother dotes on her the twins."
DOTE, () Span. law. The property which the wife gives to the husband on account of marriage.
DOTE, () It is divided into adventitia and profectitia; the former is the dote which the father or grandfather, or other of the ascendants in the direct paternal line, give of their own property to the husband; the latter (adventitia) is that property which the wife gives to the husband, or that which is given to him for her by her mother, or her collateral relations, or a stranger. Aso & Man. Inst. B. 1, t. 7, c . 1, Sec. i.
Doted (a.) Stupid; foolish. [Obs.]
Senseless speech and doted ignorance. -- Spenser.
Doted (a.) Half-rotten; as, doted wood. [Local, U. S.]
Dotehead (n.) A dotard. [R.] -- Tyndale.
Doter (n.) One who dotes; a man whose understanding is enfeebled by age; a dotard. -- Burton.
Doter (n.) One excessively fond, or weak in love. -- Shak.
Dotery (n.) The acts or speech of a dotard; drivel. [R.]
Doth (3d pers. sing. pres.) of Do.
Doting (a.) 溺愛的；偏愛的；dote 的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 That dotes; silly; excessively fond. -- Dot"ing*ly, adv. -- Dot"ing*ness, n.
Doting (a.) Extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent; "adoring grandparents"; "deceiving her preoccupied and doting husband with a young captain"; "hopelessly spoiled by a fond mother" [syn: adoring, doting, fond].
Dotish (a.) Foolish; weak; imbecile. -- Sir W. Scott.
Dottard (n.) An old, decayed tree. [R.] -- Bacon.
Dotted (a.) Marked with, or made of, dots or small spots; diversified with small, detached objects.
Dotted note (Mus.), A note followed by a dot to indicate an increase of length equal to one half of its simple value; thus, a dotted semibreve is equal to three minims, and a dotted quarter to three eighth notes.
Dotted rest, A rest lengthened by a dot in the same manner as a dotted note.
Note: Notes and rests are sometimes followed by two dots, to indicate an increase of length equal to three quarters of their simple value, and they are then said to be double-dotted.
Dotted (a.) Having a pattern of dots [syn: dotted, flecked, specked, speckled, stippled].
Dotted (a.) Having gaps or spaces; "sign on the dotted line" [syn: dashed, dotted].
Dotterel (a.) Decayed. "Some old dotterel trees." [Obs.] -- Ascham.
Dotterel (n.) (Zool.) A European bird of the Plover family ({Eudromias morinellus, syn. Charadrius morinellus). It is tame and easily taken, and is popularly believed to imitate the movements of the fowler.
In catching of dotterels we see how the foolish bird playeth the ape in gestures. -- Bacon.
Note: The ringed dotterel (or ring plover) is Charadrius hiaticula.
Dotterel (v. i.) A silly fellow; a dupe; a gull. -- Barrow.
Dotterel (n.) Rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia [syn: dotterel, dotrel, Charadrius morinellus, Eudromias morinellus].
Dotting pen () See under Pun.
Dottrel (n.) (Zool.) See Dotterel.
Doty (a.) Half-rotten; as, doty timber. [Local, U. S.]
Douane (n.) [F.] A customhouse.
Douanier (n.) [F.] An officer of the French customs. [Anglicized form douaneer.]
Douar (n.) A village composed of Arab tents arranged in streets.
Douay
Bible () A
translation of the Scriptures into the English language for the use of
English-speaking Roman Catholics; -- done from the Latin Vulgate by English
scholars resident in France. The New Testament portion was published at
Bible. Called also the Rheims and Douay version.]
Douay Bible (n.) An English translation of the Vulgate by Roman Catholic scholars [syn: Douay Bible, Douay Version, Douay-Rheims Bible, Douay-Rheims Version, Rheims-Douay Bible, Rheims-Douay Version].
Compare: Doob grass
Doob grass (Bot.) A perennial, creeping grass ({Cynodon dactylon), highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States. [Written also doub grass.]
Doub grass () (Bot.) Doob grass.
Double (a.) [Z] 兩倍的；加倍的；雙的；成雙的；雙層的 Twofold; multiplied by two; increased by its equivalent; made twice as large or as much, etc.
Let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. -- 2 Kings ii. 9.
Darkness and tempest make a double night. -- Dryden.
Double (a.) Being in pairs; presenting two of a kind, or two in a set together; coupled.
[Let] The swan, on still St. Mary's lake, Float double, swan and shadow. -- Wordsworth.
Double (a.) Divided into two; acting two parts, one openly and the other secretly; equivocal; deceitful; insincere.
With a double heart do they speak. -- Ps. xii. 2.
Double (a.) (Bot.) Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally double.
Note: Double is often used as the first part of a compound word, generally denoting two ways, or twice the number, quantity, force, etc., twofold, or having two.
Double base, or Double bass (Mus.), The largest and lowest-toned instrument in the violin form; the contrabasso or violone.
Double convex. See under Convex.
Double counterpoint (Mus.), That species of counterpoint or composition, in which two of the parts may be inverted, by setting one of them an octave higher or lower.
Double court (Lawn Tennis), A court laid out for four players, two on each side.
Double dagger (Print.), A reference mark ([dag]) next to the dagger ([dagger]) in order; a diesis.
Double drum (Mus.), A large drum that is beaten at both ends.
Double eagle, A gold coin of the United States having the value of 20 dollars.
Double entry. See under Bookkeeping.
Double floor (Arch.), A floor in which binding joists upport flooring joists above and ceiling joists below.
See Illust. of Double-framed floor.
Double flower. See Double, a., 4.
Double-framed floor (Arch.), A double floor having girders into which the binding joists are framed.
Double fugue (Mus.), A fugue on two subjects.
Double letter. (Print.) Two letters on one shank; a ligature.
Double letter. A mail requiring double postage.
Double note (Mus.), A note of double the length of the semibreve; a breve. See Breve.
Double octave (Mus.), An interval composed of two octaves, or fifteen notes, in diatonic progression; a fifteenth.
Double pica. See under Pica.
Double play (Baseball), A play by which two players are put out at the same time.
Double plea (Law), A plea alleging several matters in answer to the declaration, where either of such matters alone would be a sufficient bar to the action. -- Stephen.
Double point (Geom.), A point of a curve at which two branches cross each other. Conjugate or isolated points of a curve are called double points, since they possess most of the properties of double points (see Conjugate). They are also called acnodes, and those points where the branches of the curve really cross are called crunodes.
The extremity of a cusp is also a double point.
Double quarrel. (Eccl. Law) See Duplex querela, under Duplex.
Double refraction. (Opt.) See Refraction.
Double salt. (Chem.) A mixed salt of any polybasic acid which has been saturated by different bases or basic radicals, as the double carbonate of sodium and potassium, NaKCO3.6H2O.
Double salt. (Chem.) A molecular combination of two distinct salts, as common alum, which consists of the sulphate of aluminium, and the sulphate of potassium or ammonium.
Double shuffle, A low, noisy dance.
Double standard (Polit. Econ.), A double standard of monetary values; i. e., a gold standard and a silver standard, both of which are made legal tender.
Double star (Astron.), Two stars so near to each other as to be seen separate only by means of a telescope. Such stars may be only optically near to each other, or may be physically connected so that they revolve round their common center of gravity, and in the latter case are called also binary stars.
Double time (Mil.). Same as Double-quick.
Double window, A window having two sets of glazed sashes with an air space between them.
Double (adv.) 雙倍地；加倍地；雙重地 Twice; doubly.
I was double their age. -- Swift.
Doubled (imp. & p. p.) of Double.
Doubling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Double.
Double (v. t.) To increase by adding an equal number, quantity, length, value, or the like; multiply by two; to double a sum of money; to double a number, or length.
Double six thousand, and then treble that. -- Shak.
Double (v. t.) To make of two thicknesses or folds by turning or bending together in the middle; to fold one part upon another part of; as, to double the leaf of a book, and the like; to clinch, as the fist; -- often followed by up; as, to double up a sheet of paper or cloth. -- Prior.
Then the old man Was wroth, and doubled up his hands. -- Tennyson.
Double (v. t.) To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
Thus re["e]nforced, against the adverse fleet, Still doubling ours, brave Rupert leads the way. -- Dryden.
Double (v. t.) To pass around or by; to march or sail round, so as to reverse the direction of motion.
Sailing along the coast, the doubled the promontory of Carthage. -- Knolles.